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collectively en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin collēctīvusder. Middle French collectifder. English collective Middle English -ly English -ly English collectively From collective + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.
    • ...the tube of the throat between the larynx and the oral cavity, which is called the pharynx; the oral cavity; and the nasal cavity. These passages are collectively known as the vocal tract. 2001, Michael Dobrovolsky, “Phonetics: The Sounds of Language”, in William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, editors, Contemporary Linguistics, →ISBN, page 18:

Deriveds

collectively exhaustive

Synonyms

jointly · mutually

Translations (16)

ca col·lectivament (in a collective manner) · sv kollektivt (in a collective manner) · grc ἀθρόως (in a collective manner) · cmn 总地来说 (in a collective manner) · gl colectivamente (in a collective manner) · it collettivamente (in a collective manner) · eo ope (in a collective manner) · pl zbiorowo (in a collective manner) · ru совме́стно (in a collective manner) · es colectivamente (in a collective manner) · ru вме́сте (in a collective manner) · ka ერთობლივად (in a collective manner) · he בְּיַחַד (in a collective manner) · ru коллекти́вно (in a collective manner) · hy միահամուռ (in a collective manner) · ka კოლექტიურად (in a collective manner)